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About this job
Position Information
Gledswood Hills High School is the new high school supporting the communities of Gregory Hills and Gledswood Hills. The new school build is expected to be open in Term 1, 2027 with Year 7, 8 and 9 students, and an additional year group will be added annually.
The school serves a diverse and vibrant student body of 240 enrolment, including 13 Aboriginal students and 56% from a language background other than English.
The first HSC cohort will be 2030, and it is anticipated that a supported learning unit will be at the school when the school moves to the permanent site. The permanent site is designed to serve the dramatically growing number of local families in the area and will cater for 1000 students in stage one with an average year group of 165 students.
Specific Selection Criteria
1. Approval to teach or preparedness to undertake VET teacher training in Construction-General providing the qualification entry benchmark is met.
2. Capacity to work collaboratively with colleagues in the design, implementation and evaluation of whole school programmes to meet the differentiated learning needs of a diverse range of students in a new and developing school.
3. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to work with teachers across KLAs on innovative learning and assessment.
Conditions
An unconditional full approval to teach is a requirement. If you do not hold a full approval to teach with the NSW Department of Education, you are required to commence the application process at the same time as you apply for this teaching opportunity.
Special Notes
Applicants are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application.
About the NSW Department of Education
The Department of Education is the largest provider of public education in Australia with responsibility for delivering high-quality public education to two-thirds of the NSW student population. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including but not limited to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people of any age or gender, people from culturally and linguistically diverse groups and/or from the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, people with disability, people with sensory differences, and neurodiverse people. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please reach out to the contact person for this recruitment, details listed above. For more information, visit the NSW Department of Education’s Diversity, equity and inclusion webpage.
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